| Video Editing |
| There are multitudes of ways to process videos on the computer, but the most popular way is converting your store-bought DVDs and burning them onto DVDR�s. I used to do it that way, but found it much more convenient to store them on my computer�s hard drive instead.
Here�s the topics I�ll be discussing *DVD to DVDR (ripping and burning) *Advance DVD ripping (full control) *Video Editing *DVD to X264 (MP4) (stored on your hard drive) NOTE: You will need to use quite a bit of space for doing any of these, especially if you plan to convert DVDs to X264. (DVD to DVD+R) ripping and burning: Requirements: DVD burner, DVD media (the plus type is the best) and if you can, get the dual-layer as well, otherwise you�ll need to learn �some� Advance DVD ripping techniques. Also, try having at least 10 GB free hard drive space (you�ll find this info in �My Computer�) 1) Put a retail DVD in the DVD burner of your computer (if you are doing multiple DVDs, and have any extra DVD drives (they don�t need to be burners) you can get this done a lot faster by, putting them all in the extra DVD drives. 2) You will be using these 2 programs (but most of the time just DVD shrink): DVD shrink and DVDfab Decrypter. Just google for these and download them. 3) After downloading them install them, by finding out where they downloaded to (if you can�t find them, just use the search utility under Start>search and search them by the name they where given when you save target them) 4) (The real start) Open up DVD shrink and click on the Open button at the top. This will analyze the DVD. If you see any warning messages about the DVD, there are 3 things you can try: a) clean the disc of any dirt and smudges, don�t clean the disc going circular on it, many professionals say it�s damaging to the disc. B) Open up the program DVDfab Decrypter first. C) the disc is too scratched-up to be read, you�ll need to get another cleaner of the same disc. 5) After the analyzing completes successfully, ask yourself these questions: Do I have a DVD+R or a DVD+R DL, which will be used. If you�re using a non-DL see step #3 in the advance ripping section. If you�re using DL media, then continue here. 6) Next (only if you�re using DVD+R DL) click on Back up! NOTE for first time things there are extra things you need to do. Click on Quality settings and verify that perform deep analyzes is checked. 7) Then change the backup target as being Hard Disk folder and click on Browse. 8) You will now see every folder on the computer here, choose one you want to save to, you can also make a new folder by click on that very button here and naming it to the name of the movie is a good move. 9) Now it�s time to rip the movie, click on OK and the movie will rip, now since you are using DL media, this will go very quickly. DVD BURNING: 1) Open up Nero Start Smart and change it to advance and make it read CD/DVD at the top. 2) Open up Burn DVD files. You can also go to the start menu>all programs>nero>data>nero burning rom. 3) Make sure DVD-Video is checked when you start towards the left in the window. 4) At the top you�ll see a white area with a letter (like D) in it. This is where you can choose which drive you want to be your DVD burner. So, make sure you choose a drive that can burn the type of media you are using (DVD+R, or DVD+R DL) 5) Then click on NEW 6) Now under file browser, find the folder containing you movie that you ripped in DVD shrink. 7) Then open up the folder called VIDEO_TS, this contains all the files necessary to be played back on a DVD player. Select them all by either a marquee or using ctrl+a. 8) After that select the BURN button at the top you should also make note of the disc space being used at the bottom, you may need to switch from DVD9 to DVD5. DVD9 is dual layer and DVD5 is single layer. 9) Now change the speed to something slower like 2X-8X, the slower the better the result. 10) Your DVD is now burning, after this you are done and free to do whatever. ADVANCE DVD Ripping [Use this method only if you are going to be using non DL DVD+R media, or converting to X264] steps 1-2 are only for those who can�t get their DVD copied in shrink via copy protection. 1) Open up DVDfab decrypter and ask yourself this question: Is the DVD you�re using a theatrical movie DVD or is it a TV episodic DVD. If it�s a TV-DVD then open up with Full Disc, If it�s a movieDVD, then use Main Movie (this also cuts out the DVD menu). Otherwise always use Full Disc, if you want everything off the DVD. 2) Now go ahead and START, the process. After it�s done open it up in DVDshrink. 3) Open up DVDshrink and ask yourself this is the DVD video I need on a DVD disc or is it stored on my Hard Drive. 4) If it�s stored on your Hard Drive, then you�ll need to click on Open Files, and find the folder where your movie was saved. (Probably done by DVDfab Decrypter). Then click on the folder and then click on OK. Your video will now be analyzed and nothing should go wrong since it was already successfully decrypted. 5) After it�s done analyzing click on the Reauthor button, this open up the adavanced side of the DVDshrink program. 6) You start off in the DVD browser tab, if your dealing with an episodic DVD, but only see 1 DVD title, then skip to step 8. 7) Double click on every DVD title here and they will move over to the DVD structure side. You can also alter other things like audios you don�t want and shorten the titles to cut out the credits from the video too. 7a) To cut out part of the movie, click on (set start end frames) the two arrow picture button. In here you are given a start point in where you want to start your movie and an end point (the bottom) of where to end the movie at. If it�s just the last part you want to cut out, then just use the bottom part and change the chapter endings to something else, like where just before the beginning of the credits scroll. 7b) To remove certain audios from the movie (to save on compression) uncheck things like foreign audios and commentaries. Usually you�re leaving in English 2.0 or 5.1, this helps with compression everytime. 8) [If you have an episodic 1 title DVD] double click on the title about 5 times so you have around 5 copies of the same title under the DVD structure. What you need to do now is read up on step 7a. Also, when you get to the second episode you must change the top and bottoms for the chapter starting and ending for each episode. Basically what you are doing is using each DVD title and cutting them up as normal episodes per 1 title copied. (Example: copied title 1=episode 1, copied title 1[2]=episode 2, etc.) 9) Depending on how many episodes there are on the title, you may need to either cut out the extra copies, or copy over extras (if exceeding the 5 original copies) and keep doing this until you have fragmented the title into it�s own episodic thing. 10) The reason for doing this at all is simple: When you are using Reauthor, you don�t get to keep the DVD menu, so you have to get a better way to navigate the DVD better. So then use the Title button on your DVD remote, and you can skip to the episode you want without having to enter in the chapter #, or go forward 2-5 chapters to get to the next episode. (Also, it makes it much easier to encode with Megui as well, but read about that first) 11) Now then, go ahead and backup; you�ll do from here on now the usual stuff. But, you�ll notice when the processing starts, there is (and should be) an analysis process, this means you are using a compression to get it to fit to a single layer DVD (DVD5). But, if you�re going to use MeGUI after this, then you�ll need to change the target size to something bigger than a DVD9, this way you won�t have any compression done with the weaker MPEG-2 compression, since x264 compression is leaps and bounds better. 12) Once DVDshrink is done with the output ask yourself these questions: Am I going to be burning to a DVD+R, or am I going to be using MeGUI to create MP4/X264 encodes? 13) If you�re going to be burning to DVD+R keep going through this list, but if you�re using MeGUI, skip to the MeGUI guide instead. 14) [MEGUI ONLY] (This is in DVDshrink) YOU MUST go and change an IMPORTANT something and that something is this: Edit>Preferences>click on Output files tab and Uncheck split files into 1GB chunks. 15) For single layer DVD burning go back and read the DVD burning guide, and keep this in mind: you don�t need to fill up to 8GB, 4.37GB is how much a single layer can hold. MEGUI GUIDE Requirements: Please read step #14 in the advance section FIRST and set it up. Download MeGUI (SourceForge.com), AVIsynth, the NERO AAC codec (which is free), and .NET Framework 2.0 or later. (And some extra space on the Hard Drive for your muxed movies). Also have the K-Lite codec pack installed is a very good thing. ---SETTING UP--- 1) After Downloading MeGUI, install it. You may also be prompted by any warning messages if you don�t have the above requirements installed. You can also update certain things in MeGUI at start up. It�s best to update first so� 2) When updating, you�ll be asked to import some profiles, these profiles are settings within their supplied codecs that MeGUI uses to encode your video files. Using Xvid isn�t important, but using X264 is, as it is the most popular codec right now and the one I always use. So choose about 8 profiles from there that deals with the best settings (and a couple Blu-ray ones too; see my Blu-ray blog for more). 3) Next the Nero AAC codec you downloaded off of Nero�s Website, open it up and extract the zip folder and select everything there and put them into the folder where Megui is installed (C:/Program files/Megui and drop it in there. Next, in Megui go to Options>Settings>Program Paths>Audio tab, and in NeroAACenc, find the file path where you put the neroaacenc file. 4) On the Main Page In the Video area (Encoder Settings) click on Config�. And a window will open. Use the Best X264 profile you can, using scratchpad is ok too. Under General in Mode, find Const. Quality and set the number to 19.5. Then click on New and name the profile, and click on update to save the profile. 5) Now go to the audio area and open up config and set the constant bitrate to 192 kbps AAC profile: Automatic. Then click on New and name the profile, and click on update to save the profile. Using the program starts here 6) Next click on the Queue tab and open up (Tools>)D2V Creator. In Video Input click on the [�] button and search the directory of where your movies are stored. Double click on each .vob and they�ll open up in here. 7) In the Audio part, it will list all of the audios that are contained in the vob. You may go ahead and uncheck any you don�t want, as this will also speed up the encoding time too. 8) If your good, go ahead and click on the Queue button and you�ll notice something being added to the Queue list (if you clicked on the Queue Tab). 9) Keep repeating this with every vob you wish to encode to X264 and add them to the Queue list. 10) Now go and (using a marquee) select all the items in the list and right click on it. Choose run in Temporary worker. When this is running there won�t be a status bar (for whatever reason) but it is working and it will finish. 11) It may take a while if you got a long list (6 or more) so please be patient, whenever one item finishes that item in the list will disappear (if you followed by setup at the beginning)] 12) After EVERYTHING finishes, open up (Tools>) AVIsynth script creator. [now if you didn�t install AVIsynth from earlier, you�ll get a warning message, so you must google for it and download/install it. 13) In AVIsynth creator, under Video Input click on the [�] button and start going into the directories of where your movies are stored and open up the d2v files there. 14) Next click on (While the preview window is open) crop and crop off the black borders (if there are any) from the video. 15) In Resize click on suggest mod16. Next, click on the Filters tab. (If your source is animated click on the deserving check box for it BEFORE you run the analysis). Next click on Analyse, this will determine if you need to Deinterlace or not. [You will notice interlaced LINES in your preview as you play it if your source is interlaced.] Otherwise if it isn�t, it will be progressive and DOESN�T need deinterlacing. 16) Next (if you have more scripts to make) is to Uncheck the box �on save, close and load to be encoded�. 17) Now go ahead and make another script by following through step#9. 18) After you�re done close the AVIsynth creator window and have the Input tab on the Main window selected. 19) In the Video Input, put in your supplied scripts, which are all found within the same folders as the movies are in. (.avs extension) 20) Next you�ll need to find the ac3 files and encode them into .aac files [the ac3 files will be the same name as the movie of the .avs script in video input. (If you need to make sure you have the correct ones, just right-click on it and play it and listen to see if it�s the right one. 21) Now click on Autoencode and then click on encode. This will add the video and autio and then the muxing of the two in the Queue Tab. 22) Repeat Steps #19-20 for more movies 23) This will take a very LONG time to complete on a computer that isn�t multicore, make sure to have at least a Dual core processore. I have a Quad core and I get encodes that are usually around 20-30 fps. So a Dual core would take 2x as long as mine. 24) For Blu-ray movies DO NOT attempt to make anything that�s under a quad core as a single movie on a quad can take anywhere from 7 hrs to 14 hrs to complete 1 movie. 25) It�s best to keep the priority on the processes on low [by default it�s on low]. 26) That�s it after Autoencoding them to the Queue and running them in the Temporary worker, your done. The muxed video files will also be created to your source folders |